Pod45

Pod45 returns with a discussion on, in, and around our recent cluster Samuel R. Delany's Improbable Communities . Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles hosts a conversation with cluster editor Blake Stricklin, and cluster contributors Y Howard, Kirin Wachter-Grene, Rebekah Sheldon, and Christopher Breu.

Pod45's 20th episode spectacular! To discuss our recent cluster on Suspicion , Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles is joined by cluster editor Eleanor Russell and cluster contributors Olivia Stowell, Sheera Talpaz, and Samuel Catlin. You can read all the essays in the Suspicion cluster now at: https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/suspicion/ Hosted and produced by Michael Dochert...

Welcome back to another episode of Pod45, the podcast companion to Post45: Contemporaries, with your host Michael Docherty. Today’s discussion responds to our recent cluster American Bimbo . Joining Michael in a conversation about the enduring potency and complexity of the bimbo as an American cultural figure, celebrity and media in the 2000s, and more recent hyperonline reclamations and revisions...

Today on Pod45 we turn our attention to our recent cluster Reading Disco Elysium, edited by Jess Anderson and Carl White. Disco Elysium is a critically acclaimed videogame first released in 2019. It has been widely recognized for the richness of its storytelling, its political, moral, and ethical complexity, and how it plays with questions of choice, agency, and narrative structure in ways that fu...

Pod45 returns after a hiatus with a bumper episode responding to Contemporary Literature from the Classroom , a recent cluster edited by Rebecca Roach - available now at post45.org/contemporaries. Today's episode is a departure from our usual format. We begin as we always do, with a rich and wide-ranging roundtable discussion building on the cluster at hand: Contemporaries co-editor Michael Do...

Welcome back to another year of Pod45! In today's episode, Post45: Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles sits down to discuss our recent cluster on The Bachelor with the cluster's editors, Rhya Moffitt and Annie Bares, and two of its contributors, Robin Hershkowitz and Emily Edwards. You can read The Bachelor at https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/the-bachelor / now. Pod4...

Contemporaries co-editor Michael Docherty discusses our recent Heteropessimism cluster with two of its co-editors, Annabel Barry and Caroline Godard. The cluster's third co-editor was Jane Ward. You can read all the essays in the Heteropessimism cluster now at https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/heteropessimism/

After a short summer hiatus, Pod45 is back! We're delighted to bring you an episode discussing our recent 16-piece marathon cluster Abortion Now, Abortion Forever , which was published to mark the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization. This urgently important cluster can be found at https://post45.org/sections/contempor...

Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles discusses our recent cluster Little Magazines with its editor Nick Sturm, and two of its contributors - Danny Snelson and Stephanie Anderson. Nick's introduction to the cluster: https://post45.org/2023/06/introduction-deep-immersion-in-the-little-mags/ Danny's essay, "An Elegy for  Jimmy & Lucy’s House of 'K'  (1984–1989)": ht...

The cluster up for discussion today is Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics , edited by Connor Bennett and Michael Dango. This is somewhat ironically a rather maximalist cluster on minimalism, comprising eleven fantastic essays, including Connor and Michael’s introduction, plus a great interview with Mark McGurl. Contemporaries co-editor Michael Docherty sat down with Connor and Michael to th...

This episode of Pod45 discusses our recent The Hallyu Project cluster, which was edited and introduced by Yin Yuan . Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles sat down to chat about the cluster and the Hallyu phenomenon in some of its manifold dimensions with editor Yin Yuan (@yinyuanx) and three of the cluster's contributors: Eunjin Choi (@echoi_24), Rita Raley (@ritaraley), and Andrea Acosta (@a...

Today's episode is a response to and continuation of our recent cluster on the work of songwriter, musician, poet, and cartoonist David Berman, which you can read at post45.org/contemporaries now. Contemporaries co-editor Michael Docherty was joined by cluster co-editors David Hering and Sarah Osment to discuss Berman's life and artistry with his longtime friend and collaborator Bob Nastanovich. W...

Happy New Year from Pod45. Sincere thanks to everyone who's listened to the podcast in its first year; we really appreciate your support and hope you've enjoyed listening to the episodes as much as we enjoyed making them. We're looking forward to bringing you more impassioned and informed conversations about contemporary culture in 2023. Today's episode of Pod45 takes us to a cluster we published...

This episode of Pod45 discusses our recent Gestures of Refusal cluster, co-edited by Sarah Bernstein and Yanbing Er.  Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles sat down to chat about the cluster (as well as broader questions and themes it suggests) with Sarah and Yanbing, alongside Akwugo Emejulu, who contributed the essay " Ambivalence as Misfeeling, Ambivalence as Refusal " to the cluster,...

Today our discussion takes us to a cluster we published last month, W(h)ither the Christian Right? This cluster, a wide-ranging exploration of relationships between literature, broadly conceived, and American evangelical Christianity, was edited by Christopher Douglas and Matthew Mullins. It feels like an especially urgent and timely cluster, given the religious contexts surrounding the recent ove...

Pod45 has been on a short hiatus over the summer but we are delighted to be back and delighted to have you back with us. Today our discussion takes us to a cluster we published earlier in the summer, at the very end of June, on the writer and translator Lydia Davis. That cluster is edited by Julie Tanner and features, alongside a wonderful range of responses to Davis’s work, previously unseen jour...

Today’s episode is the second of two responding to our recent cluster Bored as Hell , a series of essays all about being bored and being boring, why we get bored and how we unbore ourselves, depicting and manifesting boredom in art and literature. You can read Bored as Hell , as well as all our other clusters, at post45.org/contemporaries .  Joining Contemporaries co-editor Michael Docherty (...

This episode is the first of two responding to our most recent cluster, which is titled Bored as Hell , and was edited by Busra Copuroglu.  Bored as Hell is a cluster of seven essays thinking about, thinking through, and thinking with ideas of boredom and boringness. It covers a lot of ground — boredom in academia, boredom in bureaucracy, the boredom of capitalism, the boredom of domestic lab...

This episode of Pod45 is the second part of a discussion emerging from our recent cluster responding to and reflecting on the work of the Scottish novelist Ali Smith. That cluster is titled Ali Smith Now and you can find it now at post45.org/contemporaries. In our previous episode, Contemporaries editors Gloria Fisk and Francisco Robles were in conversation with cluster editors Debra Rae Cohen and...

Pod45 is the discursive cultural criticism podcast from Post45: Contemporaries. This episode is the first of two discussions responding to our recent Ali Smith Now cluster, which takes the publication of Smith's latest novel Companion Piece as an opportunity to reflect on her unique oeuvre. Contemporaries editorial team members Gloria Fisk and Francisco Robles sit down for a conversation with clus...

Welcome to Pod45, the new discursive cultural criticism podcast from Post45: Contemporaries. In our first episode, Contemporaries Co-Editor Michael Docherty discusses our recent Dark Academia cluster with cluster editors Mitch Therieau and Olivia Stowell, alongside Gunner Taylor and Dylan Davidson who contributed essays to the cluster. This wide-ranging conversation explores Donna Tartt and her in...